{"id":63880,"date":"2021-05-05T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63880"},"modified":"2021-05-05T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:59:55","slug":"senator-john-kennedy-compares-big-tech-to-bolsheviks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63880","title":{"rendered":"Senator John Kennedy Compares Big Tech to \u2018Bolsheviks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>John Kennedy Compares Big Tech to \u2018Bolsheviks\u2019 \u2014 \u2018We Need to Regulate Them\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6252713802001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>TRENT BAKER<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<p>Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) on Wednesday reacted to the Facebook Advisory Board\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/05\/05\/facebook-supreme-court-upholds-the-blacklisting-of-donald-trump\/\">decision<\/a>\u00a0to uphold former President Donald Trump\u2019s ban from their platform.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy likened big tech CEOs to \u201cBolsheviks.\u201d He then pushed to regulate big tech companies, much like telephone and other utility companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose not wishing, Bill, to reside in La La Land, I think will agree with the facts as I\u2019m about to articulate them,\u201d Kennedy began. \u201cNumber one, most of the young people \u2014 and some of the old people \u2014 who are running these social media platforms are practically Bolsheviks. I mean, they\u2019re wokeristas. Now, that\u2019s OK. This is America. You can believe what you want. But no one believes that these social media platforms will regulate, or censor, let\u2019s say Senator Bernie Sanders like they would former President Donald Trump or Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. And I think the facts bear that out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber two, everybody says well, they are private companies, and they can do what they want. Yes, they\u2019re private companies. \u2026 We need to regulate them just like we regulate telephone companies and internet and \u2026 utility companies. And those are the facts,\u201d he added. \u201cI am not saying that Facebook\u2019s politics are right or wrong. I\u2019m saying they shouldn\u2019t have politics. And the only way to get this straight is to either properly regulate them or break them up. But \u2014 I\u2019m starting to repeat myself, Bill \u2014 but the fact is everybody knows their politics are to the left and that they act on it. And that has nothing to do with Trump or Senator Sanders. That\u2019s just wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/05\/05\/john-kennedy-compares-big-tech-to-bolsheviks-we-need-to-regulate-them\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/05\/05\/john-kennedy-compares-big-tech-to-bolsheviks-we-need-to-regulate-them\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kennedy Compares Big Tech to \u2018Bolsheviks\u2019 \u2014 \u2018We Need to Regulate Them\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}